10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GROANFUL»
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A popular and complete English dictionary
n. A deep, mournful sound, uttered in pain, sorrow or anguish. Any low, rumbling
sound. Groanful, grone'ful, a. Sad; inducing groans. Groamino, gro'nlng, p. pr.
Uttering a low, mournful sound. — n. The act of groaning; lamentation; complaint;
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Encyclopaedia perthensis, or, Universal dictionary of the ...
GROANFUL. adj. [groan and full.] Sad ; agonizing. Not used. — Adown he kest it
with so puissant wrest, That back again it did aloft rebound, • And gave against
his mother earth a groanful sound. ,. Spenser. (t.) * GROAT, n. s. [groot, Dutch ...
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A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Both with ...
GRlZZLY, grli-ly. a. Somewhat ra . TogGilOAN, g.r<$'n. v. n. To breathe with a
mournsul noise, as in pain or agony. GROAN, grUn. s. Breath expired with noise
and difficulty; an hoarlsie dead sound. GROANFUL, grUn-sfil. a. Sad, agonizing.
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The Mid-Victorian Generation, 1846-1886
The more immediate mood was better captured by the doomed young poet,
James Clarence Mangan (himself a cholera victim in June 1849), in a vision of '
endless Funerals' turning the earth into 'one groanful grave'.25 It was as though
my ...
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California Soul: Music of African Americans in the West
And they made it moanful and groanful, like they was begging for something, you
understand? That's how spirituals started. But blues people come right along.
They're going to beg about this woman. Now blues ain't nothing but a feeling.
Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje, Eddie S. Meadows, 1998
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Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language
Groanful. grine'fiil, a. Sad, agonizing. Groat, griwt, *. A pice, valued at four- pence;
a proverbial name for a small »um; groats, oats that have the hulls taken off.
Grocer, gr6'>ur. ». A man who buys and sells tea, sugar, plums, and spices.
Grocer ...
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Faerie queene. book III-V
1 Ezprast, pressed out. 6 Gronefull, groanful, mournful. 2 Tim, then. 7 Harnesse-
bearing, armor bearing. 3 Kest, cast. 8 Quarrey, game. ' Lumpish, heavy. 9 Then,
than. ° W'rest, wrist, or force. test to an end, by resorting to every means to gain ...
Edmund Spenser, George Stillman Hillard, 1842
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The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis
of Vulcan : next donned he a corselet about his breast, beautiful, and of gold,
curiously wrought, which Jove's daughter Pallas Minerva had given him, when for
the first time he was about to rush furiously upon groanful conflicts. Then fastened
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Hesiod, Callimachus, James Davies, 1856
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The works of Virgil, closely rendered into Engl. rhythm and ...
After he touched The deepsome waves, and to the waters came, The dripping
gore of his uprooted eye Therefrom he washes, gnashing with his teeth With
groanful cry ; and stalks now through mid sea, Nor yet the surge his lofty sides
bewet.
Publius Vergilius Maro, 1855
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The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser
... exprest:2 Th0,3 when he felt him dead, adown he kest4 The lumpish corse
unto the senseless ground; Adown he kest it with so puissant wrest,5 That back
again it did aloft rebound, And gave against his mother Earth a groanful sound.
XLIII.
Edmund Spenser, George Gilfillan, Charles Cowden Clarke, 1859
